RUSSIA: Starving Americans

Fresh
from 18 months of laying sewers for 60,000 Russians who will live in
New Nizhnü-novgorod, the "Soviet Detroit" (TIME, Dec. 22), genial
Sanitary Engineer Horace M. Patton returned last week to Manhattan,
told a tale. "Where I was working," said Mr. Patton, "they came around
to the factories once a month and asked the Soviet workmen to
contribute to a fund for 'Starving Americans.' It was good propaganda,
I guess. The poor fellows who contributed live themselves on black
bread and tea.

"The auto plant at New Nizhnü-nov-gorod that is scheduled to turn out
1,000 cars a day won't...